Sexo

Male

Fecha de Nacimiento

1921-12-17

Lugar de Nacimiento

Stockton CA, U.S.A.

Inducted

1945-11-20, Chicago IL

Tipo de Alistamiento

Draftee

Afiliación Militar

Army

Tipo de servicio prestado

Peacetime

Tipo de unidad militar

Support

Unidades a las que sirvió

Military Intelligence Service; Infantry

Especialidad militar

Language Specialist

Asignado

Ft. Sheridan, IL; Camp Gordon, GA; Ft. Snelling, MN; Presdio of Monterey, CA; Washington, DC.

Retirado

Ft. George Meade MD

Responsabilidad en la unidad

Cataloging of important Japanese military and scientific documents.

Responsabilidad individual

Cataloging of documents.

Recuerdo más vívido de la experiencia militar

During the course of language instruction at Fort Snelling, MN, MISLS closed the school operation. I was among a number of students loaded on a troop train and moved to Presidio of Monterey, CA to continue schooling.

After graduation on 9/7/1946, some of us were assigned to Washington, DC to the PACMIRS (Pacific Military Intelligence Research Service) Detachment to catalogue captured and important military and scientific documents.

About 3 weeks prior to my discharge, two of us got orders to report to one of the offices of the Pentagon for more cataloging.

Being able to work inside and see some of the working of the Pentagon was my rare lifetime experience!

Información adicional

Upon induction into the service, I was placed in the 'Enlisted Reserve Corps' as an unassigned Private and told to go home. Later, I was finally inducted, given another physical and sent to Camp Gordon, GA for basic (infantry) training. After basic, instead of reporting to Ft. Peterson, I was put on a troop train to Ft. Snelling, MN to undergo language training.